Peter Parker and the Desire for a Normal Life
If you’re looking for a theologically correct movie (or even just a family-friendly one), the superhero genre is probably not the first place you’d look. As a side-note, I think…
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Just a Thimbleful of Willingness
“When You were on earth, You made blind eyes see,” Brother Andrew prayed in 1957. “Now, I pray, make seeing eyes blind.” Then he drove up to the Yugoslavian border…
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When 2020 Wakes You From Your Slumber
I jolted awake at 2:30 a.m. An earthquake. It was our sixth quake in the two weeks since Thanksgiving, and this was the third day in a row the house…
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An Ancient Tribe and the Master Storyteller
I was born almost forty years after the ambush of the five missionaries seeking to reach out to the Waodani (known as Aucas at the time). By the time I…
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The Last Words of Betsie ten Boom
Seventy-six years ago today, on December 16, 1944, Betsie ten Boom died in a concentration camp. For decades, Casper ten Boom and his daughters, Betsie and Corrie, had operated the…
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8 (More) Christmas Quotes for Advent 2020
During these last few days before Christmas, I hope we can all carve out a few minutes to ponder the mystery of what we simply call "the reason for the…
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